What is it about?
This book takes a dialogue studies approach to disability to explore how dialogues construct ideas about disability and position disabled people. Chapters offer analyses of disability discourse across a range of contexts including autistic communication, a Norwegian Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs social media campaign, Parkinson's dance research, digital activism on Twitter, a wheelchair fashion campaign, a conversation involving speaking and non-speaking participants, and acts of resistance on Tumblr. The book opens with a discussion of dialogue and disability studies and closes with a heteroglossary that synthesizes themes from the book as a starting point for further dialogue and social change.
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Why is it important?
Disability in Dialogue answers the call for more empirical studies of disability discourse through which we can come to better understand disabled experiences and push for a more inclusive, less ableist world.
Perspectives
Dialogues are transformative. This book brought together a diverse team of international scholars with different relationships to discourse and disability studies and impacted us all in meaningful ways. We hope that others will come away from the book with an appreciation for the impact of dialogue and the consequentiality of disability discourse.
Dr. Jessica Hughes
Millersville University
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This page is a summary of: Disability in Dialogue, August 2023, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/ds.33.
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